Can't work in an 8+ billion person world. It's a great theory, don't mistake me I like the idea, but the system needs to be more flexible and more guarantees of the basics (the real basics not the "wish list"). It maybe desirable to decrease productivity to give more people work or incentivize non-productive tasks that help the environment or some other thing.
Capitalism works great when there are protections and limits applied. We need to figure out where the soft and hard limits are and codify them in away that can't be exploited. UBI would need to be a fundamental part of whatever the new system is.
Yeah but they're not using marketing bullshit, they're straight up saying they need software developers. I'm sure a chunk of the employees will be underpaid cleaning staff and such but they aren't building a distribution centre they're building a second administrative/development building.
It also doesn't make any sense because it was also affecting airplanes.
Someone else already solved it to my satisfaction - it's methane out-gassing. It takes takes very little to stall an airplane engine, the bubbling capsizes boats, and there's a large underground deposit in the area.
HQ2 will be the second Amazon headquarters in North America. We are looking for a location with strong local and regional talent—particularly in software development and related fields—as well as a stable and business-friendly environment to continue hiring and innovating on behalf of our customers.
They're idiots if they don't setup in Toronto. More tech workers there now than in Silicon Valley, at a fraction of the wages, with a far less litigious civil system, while being outside the reach of US law makers and the biggest fish in a relatively small pond.
I think the point is that people have forgotten what a BA is for. It's not to show that a person has a specific set of knowledge, like STEM or community college courses. A BA shows that a person is able to take a subject, digest the information, think critically about it, and produce a work based on the information.
What we now call "bullshitting our way through" is actually the skill that is taught in these liberal arts degrees. The ability to take whatever is presented, figure it out, and do the task given by an employer.
No we wouldn't because computing is as complex as the technology and business needs make it. The APIs we create simplify it as much as possible but more often than not they create too much overhead in "simplifying" things.
The reason they are comparable is because the value of the line is fixed. The bulk of the cost is in the sales/support/line maintenance and generally speaking it's a lot cheaper to maintain a brand new fiber network than an aging copper one. It's a rip off in that it's too much for internet overall but not if you're comparing them to each other.
You do realize that Greenland is home to roughly 56,000 people right and that the South and Western edge would have always been livable right? As to why they left, it will likely always be up for debate.
As to the Roman claim, here's a port, just North of Rome that's been around since pre-100 BC https://www.telegraph.co.uk/co... If sea levels were 30' higher back then, not only would this have been under water, most of the area around it where Roman ruins can be found, would have been flooded as well.
The grade school experiment I was referring to is to take two glass jars, put a thermometer in each, and put CO2 in one then seal them. Place the jars outside in the sun and watch the difference in temperatures. No incandescent bulbs, just two different concentrations of gasses exposed to sunlight. A rigorous scientist like yourself should be able to figure that one out and replicate it.
You do know you're talking complete nonsense right? Roman sea walls are not 30' above the current sea level - a simple google image search can prove that, wine grapes have been grown in the UK for centuries - even during what you call the "mini-ice age". During the time of Henry VIII (1509) there were 139 vineyards on record.
A simple grade school experiment can prove you wrong about CO2 - try looking on youtube, I'm sure you'll learn a lot from the grade school science videos.
We have 2 10kw solar installations, the entire family drives either electric or hybrids, house is full electric heat (kept at 15C), no A/C, and my wife and I opted not to have kids.
We're doing our part but that doesn't mean jack all in the grand scheme. With 7+ billion people we need industrial scale solutions and people need to demand them.
I was discussing an upcoming change to Google Sheets - something that violated W3C standards... the Google employee's response was "we'll just change the standard".
That's fair about adblock/etc - except I can get those on any platform. The value the others were providing was that they were available nowhere else. Additional APIs could be added later, but take web sockets - Mozilla's official response is "it's too complicated".
> It is like worrying about a car that can go 0-60 in 6 seconds and one that goes 0-60 in 5.75 seconds.... really doesn't matter that much.
That's my point - the benefits XUL provided in terms of UI/UX enhancements far outweighed the minimal speed gains.
> As far as I am aware, all those "experiments" in Firefox have a simple "OFF" setting in the preferences and/or in about:config
There are 2 different about:config flags and DXR needs to be disabled, which I'm not even sure is possible.
The "bounce back" was for useless stuff that provides little to no value, much like Chrome's addons. No SQLite manager, no FTP, no SSH, no TableTools, no "advanced" right click, etc. It was just the gimmicky garbage that was left behind in the aftermath because addon developers no longer have the access they need to create useful tools. WebExtensions are woefully inadequate compared to XUL.
And that "privacy" you so love - is non-existent. They just backdoor it through "experiments" which are exempt from their privacy policy and supposedly have privacy polices of their own, but in reality it's whatever data they want to harvest, they can, and will - with no oversight.
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Can't work in an 8+ billion person world. It's a great theory, don't mistake me I like the idea, but the system needs to be more flexible and more guarantees of the basics (the real basics not the "wish list"). It maybe desirable to decrease productivity to give more people work or incentivize non-productive tasks that help the environment or some other thing.
I would do the fucking math.
Capitalism works great when there are protections and limits applied. We need to figure out where the soft and hard limits are and codify them in away that can't be exploited. UBI would need to be a fundamental part of whatever the new system is.
Everyone wanted a walled garden cause it was "easier"
This was entirely predictable and dismissed by those who said things like this would never happen.
Yeah but they're not using marketing bullshit, they're straight up saying they need software developers. I'm sure a chunk of the employees will be underpaid cleaning staff and such but they aren't building a distribution centre they're building a second administrative/development building.
It also doesn't make any sense because it was also affecting airplanes.
Someone else already solved it to my satisfaction - it's methane out-gassing. It takes takes very little to stall an airplane engine, the bubbling capsizes boats, and there's a large underground deposit in the area.
What is Amazon HQ2?
HQ2 will be the second Amazon headquarters in North America. We are looking for a location with strong local and regional talent—particularly in software development and related fields—as well as a stable and business-friendly environment to continue hiring and innovating on behalf of our customers.
https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UT...
They're idiots if they don't setup in Toronto. More tech workers there now than in Silicon Valley, at a fraction of the wages, with a far less litigious civil system, while being outside the reach of US law makers and the biggest fish in a relatively small pond.
Their bottom line. They need to bring on non-Google revenue somehow to keep paying for the redesigns and cutting of features
I think the point is that people have forgotten what a BA is for. It's not to show that a person has a specific set of knowledge, like STEM or community college courses. A BA shows that a person is able to take a subject, digest the information, think critically about it, and produce a work based on the information.
What we now call "bullshitting our way through" is actually the skill that is taught in these liberal arts degrees. The ability to take whatever is presented, figure it out, and do the task given by an employer.
No we wouldn't because computing is as complex as the technology and business needs make it. The APIs we create simplify it as much as possible but more often than not they create too much overhead in "simplifying" things.
Sounds like a middle manager who doesn't really understand anything but wants it to be cheaper/easier so he doesn't have to pay PhD wages
For comparison I'm paying US$23.12 for 50/10 DSL in Canada.
The reason they are comparable is because the value of the line is fixed. The bulk of the cost is in the sales/support/line maintenance and generally speaking it's a lot cheaper to maintain a brand new fiber network than an aging copper one. It's a rip off in that it's too much for internet overall but not if you're comparing them to each other.
...not a city
You do realize that Greenland is home to roughly 56,000 people right and that the South and Western edge would have always been livable right? As to why they left, it will likely always be up for debate.
As to the Roman claim, here's a port, just North of Rome that's been around since pre-100 BC https://www.telegraph.co.uk/co... If sea levels were 30' higher back then, not only would this have been under water, most of the area around it where Roman ruins can be found, would have been flooded as well.
The grade school experiment I was referring to is to take two glass jars, put a thermometer in each, and put CO2 in one then seal them. Place the jars outside in the sun and watch the difference in temperatures. No incandescent bulbs, just two different concentrations of gasses exposed to sunlight. A rigorous scientist like yourself should be able to figure that one out and replicate it.
You do know you're talking complete nonsense right? Roman sea walls are not 30' above the current sea level - a simple google image search can prove that, wine grapes have been grown in the UK for centuries - even during what you call the "mini-ice age". During the time of Henry VIII (1509) there were 139 vineyards on record.
A simple grade school experiment can prove you wrong about CO2 - try looking on youtube, I'm sure you'll learn a lot from the grade school science videos.
We have 2 10kw solar installations, the entire family drives either electric or hybrids, house is full electric heat (kept at 15C), no A/C, and my wife and I opted not to have kids.
We're doing our part but that doesn't mean jack all in the grand scheme. With 7+ billion people we need industrial scale solutions and people need to demand them.
We bicker about every stupid issue under the sun instead of taking the action we know is necessary.
I was discussing an upcoming change to Google Sheets - something that violated W3C standards... the Google employee's response was "we'll just change the standard".
Tit-for-tat all you want fact is, users have spoken. Firefox is on course to drop below 5% usage while Chrome is on course to top 60%.
That's fair about adblock/etc - except I can get those on any platform. The value the others were providing was that they were available nowhere else. Additional APIs could be added later, but take web sockets - Mozilla's official response is "it's too complicated".
> It is like worrying about a car that can go 0-60 in 6 seconds and one that goes 0-60 in 5.75 seconds.... really doesn't matter that much.
That's my point - the benefits XUL provided in terms of UI/UX enhancements far outweighed the minimal speed gains.
> As far as I am aware, all those "experiments" in Firefox have a simple "OFF" setting in the preferences and/or in about:config
There are 2 different about:config flags and DXR needs to be disabled, which I'm not even sure is possible.
My mom is fighting cancer you insensitive fuck
uBlock Origin works just fine in Chrome
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
The "bounce back" was for useless stuff that provides little to no value, much like Chrome's addons. No SQLite manager, no FTP, no SSH, no TableTools, no "advanced" right click, etc. It was just the gimmicky garbage that was left behind in the aftermath because addon developers no longer have the access they need to create useful tools. WebExtensions are woefully inadequate compared to XUL.
Firefox is slower than Chrome https://venturebeat.com/2018/0... only coming ahead in Kraken/WebXPRT.
And that "privacy" you so love - is non-existent. They just backdoor it through "experiments" which are exempt from their privacy policy and supposedly have privacy polices of their own, but in reality it's whatever data they want to harvest, they can, and will - with no oversight.